This year, the XII Public Session of the Papal Academies taking place this morning in the new auditorium of the Synod, at the Vatican, was dedicated to "anonymous Christians", who, without "hitting the headlines", are "witnesses of God’s love during their daily lives". It was pointed out by Msgr. Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Papal Council of Culture. In an article appeared today in the Osservatore Romano, Msgr. Ravasi who presided over the ceremony, presented the subject chosen this year for the session: "Witnesses of His love. God’s love manifested by martyrs and by the works of the Church". The president of the Papal Council of Culture pointed out "the value and the importance, in our times, too, of the token of martyrs", as "supreme expression of love". And he added: "witnesses of God’s love" are also "all the people who, without facing martyrdom, have been spending all their lives, and all their energies to manifest, in the most essential and concrete way, the face of God full of love and charity for the very young and the poor, through endless works of charity and welcome, Christian solidarity, and assistance in the most desperate conditions". (To be continued)” “
